Ströndin Internet Radio: ............ Heidi Maddess, Artist....,...................Bill Valgardson -

Heidi Maddess was interviewed recently by Pat Peacock in the new and spacious Maple Ridge Art Gallery, just east of Vancouver.

Heidi's one month Solo Art Show was attended by 325 people who braved bad weather and driving conditions to see her 30 recent Icelandic landscapes created in mixed media.

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Take me by the Hand
as the Sun Sets.

Mixed Media on Paper
18"x14"

Iceland's landscape captivated me instantly.
I couldn't help but be inspired by what I saw around me. As I looked across the bay from Reykjavik the light of the winter months shone on the mountainsides at peculiar angles as the sun set.

Porthole to Heaven

Mixed Media on Paper
36"x24"

In the outskirts of Reykjavik is the area of Geysir. There land is smattered with pools of crystal blue boiling water, some of which blow their contents up to fifteen feet in the air soaking the surrounding rocks causing painting-like colour reactions.

Looming
in the Distance

Mixed Media on Paper
36"x27"

Landscapes in Iceland change drastically within short distances. One moment you could be surrounded by black lava and meters away the lava suddenly changes to green moss covered stone and yellow ochre grasses.

Solitude
in Simple Things

Mixed Media on Paper
18"x14"

The impression of vastness permeated my being. Iceland's great open valleys are barren of most vegetation before banking steeply into cathedral-like pinnacles so simple, raw and powerful, yet not intimidating.

Stolen Moments
of Times Long Past

Mixed Media on Paper
24"x20"

Iceland is a very old culture and I instantly felt the old memories of times long ago. It was as though history had been etched and recorded in every grain of sand, rock and drop of water and is felt with the strike of every foot-step. It was as though my ancestral ties were thirstily soaking up every impression.

Heidi Maddess and
Pat Peacock

All paintings and copy images are Copyright
© 2004 Heidi Maddess
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- Steinþór Guðbjartsson.......................................................Bill Valgardson -

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